THE WOODLANDS, Texas (KTRK) -- From a man dead for decades whose body was found weighted down in a Montgomery County lake to a young man's body found on the beach in Galveston more recently, the ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During that process, enzymes known as polymerases race along the DNA to copy its ...

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (WOIO) - New DNA testing may be happening as soon as this summer on evidence, specifically hair, in the Amy Mihaljevic kidnapping and murder case. It’s been 35 years since ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - More than 500 missing and murdered children in the United States remain unidentified and unaccounted for, with many families left without answers for decades. Othram, a DNA ...

The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office is shaving weeks, maybe even months, off criminal investigations. A plan that was four years in the making became reality Friday when the county’s top law ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Felony criminal cases are being reviewed after an audit of the Honolulu Police Department’s forensic DNA testing lab. The FBI Quality Assurance Standards audit was done ...

In June 2021, Australian forensic biologist Kirsty Wright was on holiday when she got a phone call from a journalist who was investigating a young woman’s unsolved murder and needed an expert to ...

ST. PAUL — The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has put DNA testing at its crime lab on hold as it works to determine the source of “sporadic DNA contamination.” The sheriff’s office said it appears ...

Eight DNA profiles were cross-contaminated by sloppy lab work at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the Daily News has learned. Four of the profiles were entered into a federal database, CODIS, ...